OT: Oscars Open Thread
Anybody watching the Oscars? Honestly, I'm not that big about it, but it's Spring Break here at M and I worked a day shift so I am enjoying some Hopslam that I've been saving for almost a month now. Great stuff.
The Oscars are a bit boring and tedious, but sometimes they'll have a moment or two that is very special. I thought the first acceptance speech, by Jared Leto, was very moving. Also, Ellen is so funny in my opinion.
In conclusion, what are your thoughts? Who do you have for best picture? Anyone enjoying a drink?
Happy March everyone! The cold is almost/maybe/probablynot gone!
Spike Albrecht in a runaway.
Sooooo many garbage comments on this thread.
If you don't want to discuss the Oscars, stay out of the thread.
I've only missed on 4 of my predictions with 3 awards to go, so I'm enjoying the show.
My two big misses were Production Design and Film Editing. Also missed the two short films, which, of course.
Glad to see Gravity cleaning up the technical stuff becaue it was legitimately a technical tour de force. I'm predicting 12 Years for best picture though. Haven't seen it yet, but have seen Gravity and there was just something that didn't blow me away with the story.
Somehow I wasn't able to suspend disbelief in parts of Gravity despite accepting the whole premise of getting caught outside a space station in orbit.
There is not much I don't disagree with tonight except for Spike Jonze winning.
Who did you expect/want to win for original screenplay?
Yeah, I woulda been cool with either I guess.
Life is Good (great movie). Her was my favorite movie of the year but was too far out there for mainstream America. 12 Years was very worthy, had momentum and yes is very PC.
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I watched the Oscars and . . . got lucky that the Grammys broke out. Among the few highlights of the telecast for me were: Darlene Love’s brief musical performance when accepting an award for the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom; Pharrell Williams’s Happy; Pink’s Somewhere Over The Rainbow; U2's acoustic Ordinary Love – with Bono’s subdued shoutout to Darlene Love at the end; Bette Midler’s Wind Beneath My Wings after the In Memoriam tribute; and Kevin Spacey's brief appearance as Francis Underwood from House of Cards.
Wondering whether Broadway star Idina Menzel was distracted and thrown off her game by John Travolta’s introduction of her as the wickedly talented Adele Azeem! Huh? Who? Was that some secret Scientology code? Is she that counter terrorism expert on Homeland? Oh, she’s probably that singer who’s going to get a Twitter account in the next fifteen minutes. That introduction was so awkward that it ruined the performance of Let It Go for me.
Trying hard to think of the one joke from Ellen DeGeneres I thought was even slightly funny. There was one, but I can’t recall it.
Next time Ellen DeGeneres orders pizza delivery for the Oscars telecast, she should check with the sponsors. Pepsi was one of the sponsors, so she ordered pizza from a place that has the Coca Cola logo on its boxes.
NBC connections probably will prevent any improvement for next year’s Oscars hosts. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake all might be better than Ellen DeGeneres.
After last night’s show, I don’t think I’ll watch next year’s Oscars telecast, but I’d probably watch it if it were an internet show hosted by Jerry Seinfeld with a series of special guests – Comedians In Cars Delivering Oscars.
I liked several of the Best Picture nominees more than Gravity. Two movies I liked better than Gravity (Blue Jasmine and Inside Llewyn Davis) weren’t even nominated for Best Picture; but I can’t fault Gravity’s wins in most of those technical categories.
Although seeing Scarlett Johansson is better than hearing her, I thought her voiced performance in Her was one of the best acting performances by a woman in the films of 2013. Maybe the Oscars would’ve been better off without an onstage host this year, and just using Scarlett Johansson’s offstage voice to announce the nominees and winners.
If they’re going to do a tribute to the Heroes of the Movies, just show the clips with David Bowie or The Wallflowers singing Heroes on the soundtrack.
Score one for the big guys! Interesting that the In Memoriam tribute was bookended by James Gandolfini and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
At the after-Oscars party for 12 Years A Slave did they invite Idina Menzel to sing Defying Gravity (the song she made famous frm the Broadway show Wicked)?
Jeopardy star Ken Jennings summed it up for me on Twitter: My hero is me four hours ago before I had to watch that.
but the general bitching every year is curious to me. If you don't like Ellen or the picks, dont watch. I honestly think many people watch so they can bitch the next day. It's like people who bitch about the NFL or NCAA hoops (compared to the NBA) and then can recount every minute.
btw I like Billy Crystal as the host.
the picks, don't watch" - Isn't that like saying 'if you don't like the announcers or the result of the game, don't watch the super bowl'?
I’ve been watching Oscars telecasts since the days when I watched them in black and white. I like movies. I usually like the movie awards shows.
I have close relatives who’ve been involved in the movie business and I have memories of being on sound stages and film location shoots when I was much younger. I’ve got a friend who gets the Academy screeners during the time when Academy voters are voting for the nominees, so I often see several of the films on DVD while the films are still in limited theatrical release.
I’ve also represented Academy Award winners and some SNL alums, so I appreciate the efforts that go into producing a show like the Oscars and the difficulty in making the Oscar telecasts’ comedy memorable. I usually look forward to the Oscar telecasts. As I said, apart from some of the musical preformances, I just didn’t find last night’s Oscars show very entertaining.
As "event television," I think that the Grammys and the Golden Globes might have surpassed the Oscars now. And now that we’ve got the advantage of YouTube highlights after the Oscars have been telecast, I’ve reached the point where I probably can find a better way to spend four hours on a Sunday night in early March than watching the Oscars.
I also like Billy Crystal, and I remember liking him the first time I saw him perform his Muhammad Ali/Howard Cosell routine at a sports awards event at New York's Plaza Hotel in early 1975, long before he ever hosted an Oscars telecast.
That Borges guy really should be fired.
'Cause that'd be crazy!
I was too busy watching Matt McC on a different channel.
Sounds like each season will feature and entirely different story. Brilliant.